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August 5, 2024
Corruption
World

Biden-Harris Regime Has Given Taliban Around $239 Million in Aid Due to Vetting Failures.

The Taliban has received substantial funding from the United States due to inadequate vetting by the State Department under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. According to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), at least $239 million has potentially benefited extremist groups since the Biden-Harris regime’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

The funds, distributed by the State Department‘s Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) divisions, were intended for development projects aligning with American foreign policy and national security goals in Afghanistan. However, the investigation found that these divisions failed to conduct proper vetting on at least 29 grants, as mandated by their own counterterrorism partner vetting requirements.

The vetting system is designed to ensure that prospective awardees possess ethical business practices and to assess whether the funding could benefit terrorists or their affiliates. SIGAR’s report notes that the State Department did not adhere to these protocols.

According to the report, in multiple instances DRL and INL failed to maintain compliance with document retention and vetting requirements. DRL did not properly screen the recipients of seven awards amounting to approximately $12 million. INL was unable to provide supporting documentation for 19 out of 22 awards, totaling about $295 million, making it impossible to verify compliance with the vetting requirements.

The Taliban has also profited from fraudulent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) absorbing funds managed through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Moreover, U.S. contributions to the United Nations for Afghanistan, amounting to $1.6 billion, likely also benefited the Taliban due to inadequate reporting requirements.

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The Taliban has received substantial funding from the United States due to inadequate vetting by the State Department under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. According to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), at least $239 million has potentially benefited extremist groups since the Biden-Harris regime's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. show more
Mike Johnson Foreign Aid Packages
April 18, 2024
Wake Up Right
Politics

Here’s What YOU Can Do About Speaker Johnson’s Betrayal of America.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson is preparing to drop a massive foreign aid package, comprised mostly of money for Ukraine, that ignores the wishes of GOP voters and delivers a giant win to Joe Biden.

The details: The House Appropriations Committee released a memo yesterday unveiling three bills that Johnson will package into a single rule totaling $95 billion.

  • Ukraine gets $60.84 billion in taxpayer dollars to replenish weapons & services and fund U.S. military operations in the region.
  • Israel gets $26.38 billion to replenish the Iron Dome missile defense system and other defensive and offensive weapons.
  • Indo-Pacific gets $8.12 billion to build up our defensive and offensive capabilities in the region to counter China. This includes $2 billion for Taiwan.

Joe Biden immediately endorsed this plan.

The backstab: When Johnson became Speaker, he supported the position, widely held by Republican voters, that Congress should not allocate a single dollar for a foreign country until Joe Biden agreed to secure the border.

  • In January, Johnson said: “Before we even talk about Ukraine… We have to take care of our own house. We have to secure our own border before we talk about doing anything else.”

The pattern: Unfortunately, this foreign aid vote is not the first time Johnson has ignored the will of Republican voters.

  • He pushed FISA re-authorization, which allows the Biden Department of Justice to spy on American citizens without a warrant.
  • He allowed Congress to pass the Democrats’ spending bill.
  • He let Democrats raise the debt ceiling, digging us deeper into national debt.

What do Americans think? A new poll found that just 11 percent of Americans say Ukraine funding is more important than securing the border, while 50 percent put the border first.

Big picture: Senator Rand Paul sums up the situation best: “As I see it now, I’m not so sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge.”

The House will vote on the foreign aid bill on Saturday. Readers are encouraged to call Speaker Johnson and politely let him know how they feel.

  •  D.C. office: 202-225-2777
  •  Louisiana office: 318-840-0309

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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Republican Speaker Mike Johnson is preparing to drop a massive foreign aid package, comprised mostly of money for Ukraine, that ignores the wishes of GOP voters and delivers a giant win to Joe Biden. show more
March 27, 2024
Ed Kozak
War
World

Hamas Demands HALT to Aid Airdrops Because People Keep Dying From Them.

The UK dropped ten tonnes of aid on Gaza this week, leading to an outcry from local Hamas leadership as at least 12 Palestinians drowned trying to retrieve the drifting supplies at sea.

The desperate scenes unfolded on a beach in northern Gaza as residents, amid fears of impending famine due to Israel’s continued military campaign, raced to collect the floating aid parcels. In light of the tragic aftermath and further deaths caused by stampedes towards the aid, Hamas and the Swiss-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor have called for an immediate cessation of airdrop operations, requesting instead for increased access to aid through land crossings.

Hamas further demanded that Israel allow a larger influx of aid trucks into the territory. Unicef reinforced this request’s urgency, which stressed the need for aid via land routes to prevent an imminent famine. Despite the incident in Gaza, the U.S. National Security Council has vowed to continue efforts to deliver aid by road while also maintaining airdrop operations.

This incident is not the first time aid delivery tactics have ignited controversy. Frequently, the delivery vehicles themselves have proven lethal, leading to many causalities. Earlier this month, a U.S. aid drop crushed five Palestinians to death.

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The UK dropped ten tonnes of aid on Gaza this week, leading to an outcry from local Hamas leadership as at least 12 Palestinians drowned trying to retrieve the drifting supplies at sea. show more
February 16, 2024
War

TV FOR STUPID PEOPLE: Fox Airhead Demands Biden Let Ukraine Attack Russia.

Fox News host Emily Compagno blasted President Joe Biden for being too soft on Russia, and for not being enough of a war hawk as far as the Ukraine war goes. Compagno says the president is not doing enough to assist Ukraine, even arguing that the ‘strings attached’ nature of the U.S. aid advances Russian interests and leaves Ukraine in a precarious position.

I underscore that because every dollar we have given to Ukraine has come with a condition that has only resulted in Ukraine being further hamstrung. Just like Israel, we have dictated that they cannot attack Russia uncertain fronts in certain cities.

We have given them conditions with certain tanks and armaments and whatever. So we are essentially saying here, be grateful for this, but this will not do the job. And in doing so, we further Putin’s interests.

– Fox Host Emily Compagno, February 2024.

Click here to watch the clip.

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Fox News host Emily Compagno blasted President Joe Biden for being too soft on Russia, and for not being enough of a war hawk as far as the Ukraine war goes. Compagno says the president is not doing enough to assist Ukraine, even arguing that the 'strings attached' nature of the U.S. aid advances Russian interests and leaves Ukraine in a precarious position. show more
February 13, 2024
Breaking
Politics
War

Senate Passes $95B ‘America Last’ War Package for Ukraine, Israel, & Taiwan.

The United States Senate approved a $95 billion ‘aid’ package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan early Tuesday morning, with all Democrats and 22 Republicans voting for it.

“With the strong bipartisan support we have here in the Senate, with this vote, I believe that if Speaker Johnson brought this bill to the House floor, it will pass with the same strong bipartisan support,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

However, the bill’s future in the House is uncertain, as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) has expressed his opposition to any foreign aid package without real measures to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.

“[In] the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters,” Johnson wrote in a statement released Monday night ahead of the Senate vote. “America deserves better than the Senate’s status quo.”

Former President Donald Trump opposed the bill, writing on Truth Social on Saturday: “NO MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANY COUNTRY UNLESS IT IS DONE AS A LOAN… WE SHOULD NEVER GIVE MONEY ANYMORE WITHOUT THE HOPE OF A PAYBACK, OR WITHOUT ‘STRINGS’ ATTACHED. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHOULD BE ‘STUPID’ NO LONGER!”

Republican Senators who voted against the bill echoed these sentiments. “We must fix our country before devoting more resources to Ukraine. That’s our message, and the fight goes on,” said Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio).

On Monday, Vance issued a memo to his colleagues warning that the aid package in question contained a buried impeachment trigger that effectively makes it impossible for a future President to work for peace between Ukraine and Russia without being impeached.

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The United States Senate approved a $95 billion ‘aid’ package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan early Tuesday morning, with all Democrats and 22 Republicans voting for it. show more